I have been doing the same for over a decade. It was not always intentional but everything has slotted together very nicely.

I started out boring with the first PC I had to myself growing up. Just the standard <firstname>-PC. From then on:

Mute City (2008, Dell Dimension 3600 w/ upgrades. Named after Mute City of the F-ZERO series.)

Brilliance (2011, Sandybridge i7 custom build. Inspired by some location capture dialogue in Dynasty Warriors Empires.) In retrospect, I'm not really a fan of this name. It's a bit fart sniffy.

Solaris (2013, rebuild of Brilliance. Named from the book from 1961 about a 'sentient' planet.)

- Windows usage stops here, enter Linux -

Minmus (2015, APU build. Name borrowed from Kerbal Space Program because size.)

Romulus (2016, Minmus rebuild. New title inspired by Romulus, home planet of the Romulans, Star Trek.)

Star Command (2017, Zen gaming build. Named from Star Command of Toy Story.)

Defiant (2018, ultra tiny APU desktop. Also named after Star Trek property, Deep Space 9's Defiant starship.)

Illusion (2019, POWER9 workstation. Named after the city(planet?) Illusion found in F-ZERO GP Legend.)

Starting with my next builds, I will stop naming them after scifi locations and move to something else.

My computers when I switched to Linux were called weatherwax, nanny, and garlick. Then I got a laptop called agnes. Then a NUC called kelda. My first Zen build is called wuyu, which Wikipedia informed me meant, "female shaman; sorceress; witch."

When I was at University, each computer room would have a naming theme: different trees, different flowers, and so on; I usually read my email in the Cheese Room.

I am boring, so I just call my servers with girls’ names. Sometimes they’re valkyrie names.

I dont have any names for my computers. Just call them desktop, laptop, server and rpi

Ladys names is what I have used to name my computers all my life...... They arnt linked to any particular lady..... It just makes them much easier to identify on the network and so on....

Natascha - Main Desktop PC

Sarah - My previous desktop PC that I still use from time to time

Julia - Raspberry Pi 3B+

Snezhana - Media center PC

Jessica - My parents desktop PC I have borrowed to instal Linux on to

Olga - The corporate laptop that I use for work

Bonus Name

Misty - My mobile phone..... This is the only device that is named after a person..... There is a story behind that but I dont know if anyone would be interested in hearing it.....

For me it's Ultima themed, though I keep recycling names over time. My main desktop machine is called Moonglow right now, then you have Britannia, Tenebrae, Skarabrae, etc for laptops and phones ...

I set hostname to `mr-victory` so nothing special here. Also the hostname of the Arch Linux install (converted from winesapOS) on my HDD is creatively set to `mr-victory-hdd`
Username is also `mr-victory`:grin:

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Not so much a theme but I do name all my systems, usually after legends or dark things and may be related to what they do. Because without names it would be very difficult to manage them. It helps for my ssh config file, so I can just type ssh (name).

Ones off the top of my head (I can't name all, there's too many):

Drakul - My main computer
Deck - Steam Deck
Kraven - KVM Host
Kratos - KVM Host
Libertalia - KVM Host
Viktor - Debian system
Plasma - Raspberry Pi
Coffin - Raspberry Pi
Yuki-onna - Raspberry Pi
Port Royale - KVM Guest
Queen Annes Revenge - KVM Guest
Euryale - KVM Guest
Nybbas - KVM Guest
Oiwa - KVM Guest
Ophelia - KVM Guest
Selene - KVM Guest
Gadreel - KVM Guest
Lucifer - KVM Guest
Marcus - KVM Guest

And probably others I can't think of right now, but these are the ones I usually interact with daily that are still active and in use.

Mine have become more generic with multiple reinstalls, managing ssh keys, etc etc (Hello Desktop), But many of my devices still have silly names.

Lapdog - my laptop
Rhubarb - Pi 3B
Vault - file server and it's companion...
Blastdoor - firewall/router

Hal - thermostat with connected sensors The Situation Room and Unicorn Palace
Trogdor the Cleaninator - robot vacuum

I'd like to build a weather station ("outside") and have considered a video/security system ("Xerxes" or "ART"). But both of those are a bit above my skill level and income at the moment.

Well my post got a few likes so I guess someone might be interested in hearing about why my mobile phone is named "Misty"..... This is a long story......

And I shit ye not squire...... Everything written below is true......

So to start we need to go back to 2011..... A younger and thinner Stone Cold Spider works at a large coperations Helldesk..... I mean Helpdesk...... My Team Lader is going on holidays for two weeks and I have been promoted to Acting Team Leader while he is gone...... Its 7:00am Monday..... My first day as Acting Team Leader..... I just get seated in my chair when one of the guys from my team.... We will call him Mr K comes to see and tells me thats he "lost" his corperate phone over the weekend...... Oh boy im thinking..... Why today???..... Why not last week????.....

So I talk to him about his weekend and try to retrace his steps to see if he can remember where he left it..... Thinking he might has left it at the servo or the bottleo or something..... But he cant remember and says he had been on the turps all weekend as it was his mates birthday and he cant remember anything.......

Well then I do the next logical thing...... Call the phone and see if anyone answers (probably should have done that first but my curiosity about what he did on the weekend got the better of me)...... So I dailed the number and a lovely lady by the name of "Misty" answered the phone...... So I explaine who I am and why im calling and all that..... She then explaines that shes a stripper and that Mr K was in the Strip Club Saturday night..... And was very drunk...... When he ran out of "Dancing Dollars"* she explained that he put the phone in her g-string** as payment......

*In Australia 1 Dollarydoo is a coin not a note...... So when you go to a strip club you need to buy "Dacing Dollars" that you then leave in the ladies g-string/garter and after their shift the ladies then exchange back into real Dollarydoos....

**This was when I was living in Sydney, New South Wales and there was a law that women in NSW wernt alowed to perform nude at Strip Clubs and that they had to keep the g-strings on.....Which is why the phone/dancing dollars went into the g-string and not the garter.... This also made it funny whenever a NSW lady won the Miss Nude Australia Contest as The Miss Nude Australia was then a lady who wasnt allowed to actually be nude...... Dont know if that law has changed now as I no longer live in NSW......

I explaine how its not his phone but the coperations phone and also explaine her how we will have to get the phone back off her..... She was actually really nice about it and we arranged to get the phone off her and everything was cool..... I expecting an argument but no she was really cool about it....

After that I sat down with Mr K in my office..... After I did [Picard's Epic Double Facepalm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNsrK6P9QvI) I explained the phone call and how he "lost" his phone...... Told him I would have to tell the Team Leader when he gets back from holiday and he would have to cop whatever punishment was delt to him.....

And all of this happened before 7:45am Monday on my first say as Acting Team Leader....... If I drank I would have poured myself a double after that.......

And so now whenever I see a phone I always think of Misty and what happened that day...... And now every phone I will ever have from that point on will be named Misty.......

:grin: That's hilarious! It's a shame he doesn't play ATS and more recent or you could have recommended one of my old[1] video game mods to him :grin: :grin:

[1] I don't make mods for that game anymore.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnd so now whenever I see a phone I always think of Misty and what happened that day...... And now every phone I will ever have from that point on will be named Misty.......

Oh my god, I had no idea what to expect from this story, and then I couldn't stop laughing! :grin: Thanks so much for sharing it! I think you win the thread, sir. :tongue:

Last edited by Pengling on 21 Aug 2022 at 1:26 pm UTC

Sure I do, I want to be [RFC 1178](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt) compliant!

Since whenever I have used character names from the [Sluggy Freelance](https://www.sluggy.com/) webcomic.

So far I have used:

• zoe
• torg
• gwynn
• riff
• kiki
• sasha
• aylee
• oasis
• bunbun
• squishydodo

Quoting: CatKillerMy computers when I switched to Linux were called weatherwax, nanny, and garlick. Then I got a laptop called agnes. Then a NUC called kelda. My first Zen build is called wuyu, which Wikipedia informed me meant, "female shaman; sorceress; witch."

When I was at University, each computer room would have a naming theme: different trees, different flowers, and so on; I usually read my email in the Cheese Room.

Makes sense. I bet the systems in the other rooms would spew frequent Out Of Cheese errors.

Fictional Ships

Moya - Living Room HTPC
Dell Optiplex 7050 - OS: POP! OS 22.04 - CPU: i5-7500 @ 3.4 GHZ - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 256 GB SSD
It has a Logitech K400 that acts as its remote and two Atari VCS wireless controllers

Gaming setup - ReDream and itch.io

Weatherlight - My Computer Room - Work/Gaming - Laptop
System 76 Gazelle - OS: Pop! OS 22.04 - Video Card: 6 GB GDDR6 GTX 1660 Ti w/ 1536 CUDA Cores - CPU: i7-9750H (2.6 up to 4.5 GHz) - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 240 GB SSD

It has a keyboard and mouse that have no name brand from 5 and Below that light up (surprising strong since I've had them for years and easy to clean). Literally the box said 'Light Keyboard and Mouse'. It was meant to be a replacement but has been the main for some time now. Two Logitech F310 mounted to Cable Guy - Ryu and Chun-Li. Logitech Z200 speakers.

Gaming setup - ReDream, Steam, Stadia and itch.io

Argo - Wife's Main Computer - Work/Gaming - Desktop
Dell Optiplex 7050 - OS: POP! OS 22.04 - CPU: i5-7500 @ 3.4 GHZ - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 1 TB SSD
Inland Gaming Mouse GM-76 with a Dell KB522 Business Multimedia Keyboard

Gaming setup - Stadia and itch.io

Orville - Child's Main Computer - Gaming - Desktop
Dell Optiplex 9020 - OS: Ubuntu Mate 22.04 - Video Card: Radeon™ RX 550 4 GB - CPU ntel Core i7 i7-4770 3.40 GHz - RAM: 16 GB - HD: 1 TB SSD
Razer CYNOSA CHROMA and Inland Gaming Mouse GM-76 along with 2 Logitech F310 and 1 HORI Fighting Stick

Gaming setup - Steam, Lutris, Redream, Stadia and GeForce Now

Talon - Bed Room HTPC - Gaming/Multimedia - Desktop

Raspberry Pi 4 - 8 GB version - OS: Twister OS
It has a Logitech K400 that acts as its remote and two Atari VCS wireless controllers

Gaming setup - Mednafen

Mr Spider, that's a hilarious story! I hope you had more, well, entertaining experiences as a tech. Might be worth putting it on the r/talesfromtechsupport subreddit, they'd love that.

My naming conventions aren't very interesting, for some reason I always name my machines after types of fish. No idea why.

Quoting: sourpuzMr Spider, that's a hilarious story! I hope you had more, well, entertaining experiences as a tech. Might be worth putting it on the r/talesfromtechsupport subreddit, they'd love that.

I have never been into reddit..... But I was thinking about starting a thread on here for funny work stories....... To get people to think about some good times at work besides that soul crushing busy work we have to do 99% of the time......

Usually i call my pc as primary os + main reason that i installed it. So they allways like
wingaming
LinuxBox (box for beta alpha testing in linux)
MEA-X linux family

Coming from my faible for RTS games, mine where named with the NATO designations of Soviet/Russian fighter planes:

Flanker for the Desktop, as that was their long range ASF
Fulcrum for the Laptop, because the Mig 29 was the front-stationed little brother of the Flanker with comparable capabilities
Foxhound for the server
Foxbat for the phone
Flogger for the Raspi

At this point I feel it's important to mention that I strongly condemn the invasion of Ukraine, and started the scheme long before.

Last edited by minfaer on 25 Aug 2022 at 5:56 pm UTC

Quoting: minfaerComing from my faible for RTS games, mine where named with the NATO designations of Soviet/Russian fighter planes

Only thing missing is a NAS called Fishbed!